Feb
10
While wandering around the web, I somehow accidentally came across a free service that allows people to monitor their servers for free. Free has always been a nice "selling" point for me... Anyhow, this service allows me to send HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SIP, TCP, UDP, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, PING, and DNS all for a specified IP or domain (and/or subdomain). I can create reports, allow more than one person to view the resulting information (I think), do some benchmarking, subscribe to feeds on my data...and it can contact me in various ways in the event of any failures:
Contact Options:
Contact Options:
- SMS (cellphone)
- ICQ
- Yahoo
- MSN
- Google Chat
I've just recently switched hosts and am somewhat curious to see how it stands up -- even though they do their own testing and make it publically available. However, we've also just purchased off-site hosting for the library so we can concentrate on more pressing matters. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how reliable they are. Luckily there's a 90+ day guarantee, so we'll see...otherwise, it's a 2-year contract.
So far the HTTP response was down for ~1.5 hours according to this monitoring service on our library's new host -- we have not yet switched over from our current server. Oh yes, they track from three separate countries: United States, Austria, and Germany.
"Geez Louise! What's the service itself!?! Give us a link already!"
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Sorry! http://mon.itor.us
Check it out and learn more. Just as a precaution: I didn't read their privacy policy (which I usually do). You may want to do that yourself if you plan to sign up.
So far the HTTP response was down for ~1.5 hours according to this monitoring service on our library's new host -- we have not yet switched over from our current server. Oh yes, they track from three separate countries: United States, Austria, and Germany.
"Geez Louise! What's the service itself!?! Give us a link already!"
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Sorry! http://mon.itor.us
Check it out and learn more. Just as a precaution: I didn't read their privacy policy (which I usually do). You may want to do that yourself if you plan to sign up.
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